6 Ridiculous Things That Have Happened Since Pokémon Go Took Over the World

The other day my sisters, two avid Pokémon GO trainers, took me out for a joy-ride around our hometown. They bought me some chicken nuggets, blasted some Hamilton, and we drove between local landmarks setting lures, collecting Pokéballs, and talking a big game about hatching eggs.

This probably isn’t too different from how most other Pokémon trainers (and their sisters) spend their evenings (give or take their choice of snacks and local scenery).

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But while I may have had a #typical Pokémon evening, some really freaking weird stuff has gone down during the quest to “catch ‘em all.” (Like that time a woman caught her boyfriend cheating through Pokémon Go...) Here are just a few of the greatest hits:

If you’ve never looked carefully at a Diglett (ground type, sorta phallic) and thought “this looks a whole lot like a little poop,” you probably have never looked too closely at a Diglett.

To makes things better (or worse, depending on the height of your brow), one Reddit user managed to capture this Pokémon in his natural habitat—and it launched a full-on thread of “Poo-kemon” names that would impress even the most jaded class of second graders.

2. These Literally Unbelievable Stories Went Viral Did you hear the one about the teenager who comitted fratricide over his Pokémon, the guy who won a massive lawsuit against Nintendo, or the one about ISIS claiming responsibility for service issues in-game? Well, jokes on you: According to Poynter, they were all bulls--t.

As Poynter’s Benjamin Mullin writes: “Those stories are works of fiction published on the website CartelPress.com, which looks a lot like a news website but actually isn't. Although the site features many staples of digital news (headlines, a banner advertisement, an animated bar labeled "TRENDING NOW"), it's actually full of fabricated stories.”

Furthermore, those stories are straight-up written as satire (and disclosed as such in the site’s terms and conditions) by the site’s creator, Pablo Reyes, and serve only to fool your less-than-web-savvy peers.

IGN’s Pokémon GO Wiki says that Pokéstops will be installed at locations like “historical markers, monuments, and art installations.” However, the game has brought many intrepid trainers into literal graveyards. On one hand: Those brave enough to overcome fears of hitchhiking ghosts and creepy crawlies are probably deserving of the title “Pokémon Master.” On the other hand: Nope. Nope. Nope.

5. We've Realized a Horrifying Pokémon Partisanship Would you believe that, of all the shenanigans at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, the Republicans did way better on the rare Pokémon front than the Democrats did in Philadelphia?

Gawker’s Ashley Feinberg reported from the field that, while she was able to score a Meowth (a normal type, also a kitty), a Growlithe (a normal type, also a puppy), a Seel (a water type, also a seal), and more in Cleveland, the Democratic National Convention only wrought a pack of underwhelming Doduos (flying/normal type, easily confused bird). When will the partisan nonsense end?

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